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Summary: Halloween's Come and Gone
Review: As something of a horror buff, I like to think myself open minded when it comes to what constitutes good quality for a horror film. I love Fulci, Argento, Romero, Carpenter, Cronenberg... I love quiet horror films as well as pusbucket gorehounder flicks...Was this movie suspenseful? No. Did the movie keep my interest? Oh... yawn... yeah, uh-huh, whatever... When I die, if I have to answer for all the wasted time I spent, I think I will be able to do so, except for the time I sat through this movie. Ressurection was terrible. That's it, all I can say. In recent years, I can recall maybe five times that I ventured to a theatre, shelled out my money and then wanted to walk out in the middle. The last time this happened, was for Halloween: Ressurection. I went to the cheapo matinee, and I still felt ripped off! The best of the series was the first. Donald Pleasance made the sequels (except #3) watchable (maybe a little fun), but without him, the franchise has gone straight into the toilet. H20 was cute, but scary? Not really. And this one? It's about as much fun to watch as the Lost in Space movie -- that is, not at all. Do yourself a favor and flush this excremental flick. Don't waste your time staring at it.
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Summary: Laurie is not dead!!
Review: How could anyone think that laurie is dead?? She barely gets stabbed and falls into a padded canopy of bushes. Please!! All of you people need to calm down. There will be another one.
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Summary: DONT HATE ON IT!
Review: Okay, I am the HUGEST halloween fan ever! And I was so amazed upon this movie! Dont hate on Ressurection because of how its done. I read a Review and it said somthing about DUM Teenagers...and how it ruins the plot, well EVERY Halloween movie there is (execpt for H2O) has teenagers. Am I right? of coarse I Am! This is a whole new millenium and mostly only teens watch it so this movie was THE BOMB and it was well written! I loveee this movie and every other halloween movies (EXECPT FOR 3)!! :-D
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Summary: Average - Could have been better
Review: Considering this is the eighth movie in a tired movie series that has admittadly been reinvented with the recent H20 film, it does have some great bits and some bits that just ruin the film completely. The first ten minutes just sets the film off perfectly. It is exciting and once again shows Michael Myers pursuing his sister, Laurie played once again by Jamie Lee Curtis, the best character / actress in the whole film. This time he succeeds. After the entire series more or less establishing the ongoing battle between the brother and sister and her dispatching her brother in H20, which seemed like the final time, she herself falls prey to his knife in the first ten minutes!! The ending of H20 is explained very well, with Michael crushing a cops Larynx at the crime scene and replacing his own body with his victims. Sadly, after the first scene, it all goes downhill. We are introduced to characters we dont want to meet. Stupid, silly teenagers screaming, running round, acting stupid and telling jokes when they are aware that death is something that could be imposed at anytime. Comedy and horror just doesnt work sometimes! This film gives us a hack and slash saga with no propper storyline to go with it. Just endless killing with no lovable characters or relationships. The plot is that a group of teenagers have an internet investigation, exploring Michaels house, that looks more like the original, rather than the disastrous effort made in part five. They all get dispatched one by one and the two remaining characters manage to survive with an unbelievable internet 'friend' telling them just where Michael is in the house. Probably the lowest point in the movie is a fight scene between Busta Rhymes and Michael, where the rapper resorts to kung fu. It just has 'pathetic' written all over it. Maybe if the film adopted a style like the fantastic British big brother style movie 'my little eye', after the Laurie scene, this would have been very scary and a much more original sequel, if it was done right. With the Laurie storyline at a close, the future for the halloween series looks pretty bleak, with a predictable line up of teenage scream rip off sequels that manage to be worse than part three, four five and six. With Michael waking up in the morgue after being burned at his house, it just cries out 'lets make a sequel' but theres nothing worthy left to pursue. Why this couldnt be the last Halloween film after all (if the makers were so insistant on a sequel) with Michaels body disappearing from the end crime scene and coming after Laurie at the end, i'll never know. Then she could have dispatched of him once and for all, or killed herself along with him. Does the cash incomes have anything to do with it?? Its a very average movie, that isnt the strongest or weakest halloween movie. But the first scene definately made this movie for me, and i would recommend it to anyone that enjoys the halloween series. My main complaints were that Laurie was dispatched in such a quick and simple way, completely destroying the message of H20, and that such stupid characters filled the movie from that moment on. The Laurie v Michael storyline was the thing that attracted most fans, with that in the past, theres not much left to attract me to this series. This is a worthy addition to the series, after it includes a great confrontation between Laurie and Michael, along with the original, part two and H20. Apart from these, ignore the rest of the series. They create rubbish and cheap tv characters with an unbelievable connection to Michael, when Jamie Lee Curtis obviously wasnt available. H20 should have been the end. If this film's events was in reverse order with Michael really dying, then it would have been alot better. Believe me. The Jamie Lee Curtis cameo makes this part a worthy addition and a watchable movie, and shes just in the first ten minutes. It just doesnt say much for the rest of the movie.
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Summary: Puts the series straight back to pre-H2O levels.
Review: Okay, I'll try to be balanced here. This movie was terrible. I know a lot of people were disappointed in H20 because it is far too similar stylistically to the post-Scream slasher movies, and some because it abandons the storyline of Halloweens 4-6. However, I think that was the correct thing to do seeing as the wider audience is far more familiar with the Jamie Lee Curtis story, which showed in the box office for H2O. So, three years later, plus an extra one because of production problems, we have Resurrection. And was it worth the wait? Absolutely not. And here's why! The Jamie Lee Curtis cameo was the most ill-conceived idea since they killed off James T. Kirk in a cameo in Star Trek: Generations. We had 20 years and three movies of build-up to the event that was motivating this killer, and they deliver the most insulting anti-climax since the aforementioned demise of one starship captain. And what's worse, it's the best 10 minutes of this movie. I don't lay this blame entirely with one party, because what was an ill-conceived idea was then filmed very badly by Rick Rosenthal, and then edited even more slopily in post production. Jamie Lee Curtis should have used her contracted obligatory appearance for something much more useful, like having Myers searching for her the whole movie and then she appears at the end. That would have worked much better. Besides which, Laurie's 'death' is highly ambiguous, given that she is stabbed once and falls from the roof, landing softly on the tree tops. I must admit, that is perhaps the best shot of the movie, but it doesn't totally convince you of anything really. After all, look at dear old Dr Loomis. He burned, he was thrown through a window, he was stabbed, he had a fatal heart attack, and then something incoherent happens to him at the end of H6. And you KNOW he would have been in H2O if Donald Pleasance were still alive. Anyway, moving along... to the score, or rather, to an acceptable version of John Carpenter's classic theme (although how many more 'variations' on that I can take, I don't know). I struggled to pick out any decent new cues throughout the entire film, or to be more accurate, any cues at all! Not a good sign. They might as well have just replaced it with some of Marco Beltrami's score from Scream, as they did in H20. Basically, there is just no point to this story. The reality TV/internet broadcast thing is two years past its sell by date, besides which it was done much better in My Little Eye this year. It completely undermines the whole story behind the Halloween movies, whether you prefer the H1,2,4,5,6 or H1,2,H2O,8 path. After finally dispensing with his sister (until H40!) all he seems to do is a spot of housework. And cutting past the chase to the denouement, Resurrection also has perhaps the [worst] final scene in the whole series. At least the mess at the end of H6 left you wondering what...had happened. Not Resurrection. No, sir...
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Summary: "Well-written, fantastic, but typical horror film..."
Review: At the final part of this review, it will probably say that this text refers to the theatrical release edition. But actually, I'm reviewing this film because I read the screenplay, and I don't have many bad things to say about it. Freddie Harris (Busta Rhymes) is launching a live internet broadcast exploring the childhood home of psycho-fiend Michael Myers, and he's bringing six teenagers with him, and if they can stay the night, then he promises them free college tuition. However, Michael Myers has returned to Haddonfield and is killing off each teenager one by one. Seems like a basic boring Michael movie right? Wrong. In this, there are cameras all over the house, so from the script I can tell you that you get to see Michael killing people from all these freaky angles, so it's a truly remarkable screenplay. Jamie Lee Curtis is actually in this film, portraying Michael's sister, Laurie Strode, as usual. However, she is only in the beginning, but I will not say another word that explains her absence through most of it. I should tell you, though, the killer in "Halloween: H20" was not the real Michael Myers, and I think I'll let you see the movie and find out why for yourself. Some of the killings are pretty clever, but, I find that the Jason films are more (not by a whole lot, though) entertaining. So, in third place: "Red Dragon", in second place: "Halloween: Resurrection", and in first place, as the best sequel to a horror franchise yet: "Jason X"! And saying that, I'd prefer "Jason X" over this, but this was still a brilliant screenplay, and is probably a brilliant film as well, so I definitely recommend "Halloween: Resurrection". Thanks for reading this.
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Summary: halloween resurrection
Review: i think this movie was awesome and kept me jumpin out of my seat and that's what i like.that's how you know your watching a real horror movie!!!!!!
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Summary: Halloween: Resurrection - Resurrecting the genre
Review: Having gone to see Halloween: Resurrection last night at the cinema, I was unsure what to expect. The Halloween movies are some of my favourite films (except part 3) and I particularly enjoyed H20 as it was very suspensful rather than gory. I have to say Resurrection definitely surpasses H20 and most of the other sequels. It has some clever elements to it, particularly the Blair Witch side of the film which makes it freaky as you are following the victims around the house.
Michael Myers' mask seemed more freaky to watch and it was clever how they explained it was the wrong guy Laurie killed at the end of H20. Myers' character changed at the beginning of the film, as he went head to head for the final time against his long suffering sister Laurie, as she tried to kill him on the roof and he manipulated her which leads to a shocking beginning and I thought it was clever of Michael Myers to do this, showing a more human side.
But anyways, besides a few corny lines and Busta Rhymes getting injured but never dying (damn it), definitely brilliant and I'll be buying the DVD.
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Summary: The worst of the 8
Review: I have to say how disappointed I was in this the 8th installment of the Halloween series. Halloween is by far the best horror flick ever made. The first installment continues to scare me today, even after having first seen it in 1978. This sequal [ruins] the whole Michael Myers series. The whole premise of Michael Myers was that he wanted to kill his sister or relatives. ... The plot of the movie is lame and the actors are wasting their talents on a franchise that deserves much better. ... I was very much disappointed in the Halloween franchise, which was up to this point my favorite horror flick. They would have done well enough to leave H20 as the final chapter. Do not resurrect this one. It is horrible!
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Summary: Much better then Jason X
Review: I thought Jason X was good. Jason X is the kind of horror movie that we can luagh at. I'll admit, it was scary but Halloween: Resurrection was a lot better! This movie is scary, but although the plot is a little wierd it is still good.
The saga finally goes to a new kind of plot. Original character Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is finally dispatched in the the first 10 minutes of the movie by her insane brother. So no longer will Micheal Myers be chasing after her or any other family members or have any conflict with Dr. Loomis (whose character was put to an end in Halloween 6) or any of the original characters except Tommy Doyle who I think they should bring back again.
The new plot is mainly about 6 college students being offered the american dream- fame and fortune. There is a catch though- they need to spend the night at Haddonfield's most feared home. Just take a wild guess about which house it is. All of this is being put on a live broadcast on the internet by two people (Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks) Any way, the home is equiped with cameras and the college kids' objection it explore the home and where cameras one there heads and discover stuff about Micheal Myers that nobody already doesn't know about. They mainly just check out old belongongs that belonged to the old Myers family. Like for an example, one guy find a high chair with hand cuffs and chains on it. What it up with that. I was just wondering, shouldn't have all the stuff that belonged to the Myer's family get thrown out by the family that lived in that home in the sixth one? But what they don't know is that all this stuff is all planned and set up by Busta and Tyra. But there is something it that home that home or should I say SOMEONE in that home that isn't a setup. It's Micheal and he is off to his gory ways again. And what makes things worse for thekids and busta is that the house is all locked up so they are kind of trapped. Halloween Ressurection brings us what every halloween fan excepts. I myself am more of a Friday the 13th fan but I really enjoyed this film. The new main character Sara (Bianca Kaljich) really changed thru the story. At first she was [timid] but at the end she nearly killed micheal with a chainsaw. Too bad the motor in the chainsaw only lasted a few seconds. The only thing I didn't like in this movie was that the really hot girl died. I forget her name but Micheal shoved her back through some pointy spike down in the basement. Anyway I still like thgis movie. Get this when it comes out, I know I will.
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